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Mike Murphy, Orlando, 
and Noel Rubinton, Newsday

Ryan Blethan, Seattle Times.

Jim Atkins, Toronto Star, and 
Libby "Scooter" Rock, speechifier

Karisue Wyson, Wash Post Writers,
and Jim Atkins

Murph again, and Jim again

Half of Carolyn Lumsford, Hartford,
and John Overmyer, NewsArt

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Friday Night Lights
(clockwise from top right:  John, Ryan,
 John, John, John, Chuck, and John)

Hurricane Wilma expert, 
Lou Ann Frala, Palm Beach

John Timpane, Phila. Inquirer

A rare silent moment for John Allison, Pittsburgh Post-G

Carl Wernicke, Pensacola N-J,
and founder, Phil Joyce, Phila. Inquirer

Blast from the Past:
2004 AOPE - Philadelphia

Good morning.

   I’d like to take this opportunity to put a few ideas forward on the subject of art on the oped page. And before your eyes collectively glaze over: let me assure you that we are all entirely cognizant of the dark financial realities and changes that are besetting the newspaper world at this moment.

   But as audiences become more visual and less print oriented, as images on the page are becoming as compelling to new readers as the words, and as newspapers endlessly pursue the shimmering, elusive 18-35 demographic - perhaps this is the time to frame the discussion in a different light.

   Consider this generation: the generation that has grown up with vast advances in all forms of image technology, in artwork and animation on TV and in print, with a much wider acceptance of comic books and graphic novels, in a world where every surface seems to be brilliantly decorated, illustrated, or animated; and with access to the kaleidoscopic experience of the Internet. 
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